Manya Joshi (born 17th July, 1972) is a
Marathi poet based in
Mumbai
Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12 ...
.
He has a Master's in
Marathi literature from
Mumbai University and a Master's in
Library and Information Studies from the
University of Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two territories became the ...
, USA. He works as a freelance library research advisor and copywriter. He also writes short fiction and literary criticism. He is closely associated with the
little magazine movement of the nineties, especially with the periodical ''
Abhidhanantar''. His collection of poems ''Jyam Maja'' is published by Abhidhanantar Publications.
The literary critic Sachin Ketkar in his introduction to ''Live Update: An Anthology of Recent Marathi Poetry'' writes, "He is one of the most experimental poets writing today. He represents the post-modernist sensibility in Marathi today".
[Sachin Ketkar ed. and trans. ` Live Update: An Anthology of Recent Marathi Poetry', Poetrywala, Mumbai, 2005, .]
Online poetry
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References
Indian male poets
Marathi-language poets
1972 births
Writers from Mumbai
Living people
Poets from Maharashtra
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